On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 10:47 +0100, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> On 04.01.2009 10:08:48 Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Henri Yandell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Before anyone will be happy moving into the Attic, they're going to
> > > want to know what the effect will be.
> > >
> > > They'll also want to know how to get out - but I think that's
> > > surprisingly easier and I've made a stab at it in the draft webpage.
> > >
> > > On the moving in - our ApacheCon discussion listed a bunch of ideas:
> > >
> > > * SVN read only.
> > > * Add banner to websites.
> > > * Contextual email to user list once a year saying it's dead. Suggest
> > > alternative projects.
> > > * Kill the dev list.
> > > * README on archives.
> > > * Kill automated builds.
> > > * JIRA: Move to Retired projects. Update description. Point url to
> > > attic. (Make retired projects commentable?)
> > > * Bugzilla: Stop new issues.
> > >
> > > Additionally:
> > >
> > > * Add entry to the Attic site.
> > > * Remove from www.apache.org index.
> > > * Kill user list if dead.
> >
> > "kill user list if dead" might be hard to know. kXML mailing list had
> > a 1-2 new posts per year for instance.
That is actually something that was discussed forwards, backwards and
sidewards. The idea is:
Project is dead. We *don't* want people using it. If they want to revive
it, that's what the dev list is for. I assume it is possible that
project related discussions will wander over to that list; however this
will concentrate the discussion on a single list.
So I am +1 to killing the user list.
Remember, we are not talking about dormant/stable projects here. We are
talking ECS. :-)
Ciao
Henning
